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doll
[dol]
–noun
—Verb phrase| 1. | a small figure representing a baby or other human being, esp. for use as a child's toy. |
| 2. | Slang.
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| 3. | Informal. a generous or helpful person: You're a doll for lending me your car. |
| 4. | doll up, Informal. to dress in an elegant or ostentatiously stylish manner: She got all dolled up for a trip to the opera. |
Related forms:
dollish, doll-like, adjective
doll⋅ish⋅ly, adverb
doll⋅ish⋅ness, noun
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Doll
Doll\, n. [A contraction of Dorothy; or less prob. an abbreviation of idol; or cf. OD. dol a whipping top, D. dollen to rave, and E. dull.] A child's puppet; a toy baby for a little girl.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : Doll
Spanish:
muñeca,
German:
die Puppe,
Japanese:
人形
doll
1560, endearing name for a female pet or a mistress; originally a familiar form of fem. proper name Dorothy (q.v.). The -l- for -r- substitution in nicknames is common in Eng.: cf. Hal for Harold, Moll for Molly, Sally for Sarah, etc. Attested from 1648 as colloquial for "slattern;" sense of "child's toy baby" is c.1700. Transferred back to living beings 1778 in sense of "pretty, silly woman" dolled up is Amer.Eng. 1906. Doll's house first recorded 1783.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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